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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Realities and the Muslim Revival, Installment 6

Western people are often bewildered by the hostility and rage that
many Muslims feel for their culture. This was because of their very
different experiences.

They found this to be both liberating and
empowering. The Muslim response should not have been unexpected.
Because the Muslim world was so widespread and strategically placed
that it was the first to be subjected in a concerted, systematic,
manner to the colonization process in the Middle East.

This was also
the problem for India, Arabia, Malaya, and a significant part of
Africa.

Muslims in all these places very quickly felt the brunt of
the modernizing assault; they would not and will not come into the
modern world easily or willingly.

Lets look at the results to all
this and see what we are dealing with as a direct result of
colonization, and modernization. It appears to be single handedly the
main culprit to our problems with Islam.

Let us start by talking of Afghanistan. There are so many places
to start this conversation of what we are up against world stability
wise it really is a shame.

As far as getting the point across I think
this is a good visual start. We know why the United States was
compelled to attack Afghanistan and were aided by much of the
civilized world.

We knew what we were up against having observed the
Russians in their unsuccessful bid to defeat Afghanistan. This was
only partially due to the ferocity of the Afghan people. We watched
for years as the Russians battled futilely with what seemed as an
endless amount of combatants.

This in fact was a never ending supply
of Muslim combatants. We knew that Afghanistan was constantly being
resupplied with fighters primarily over the wild mountainous region
along the Afghan Pakistan border.

We knew that these fighters were
indeed coming from virtually every Muslim country on the planet. This
as we know is the nature of Muslims. As a result of this we knew in
fact what to expect when we made the decision to go in.

Our mistake
was trusting and relying too much in the Afghan tribesmen.

With this in mind, why I ask, do we even make believe we believed
the ridiculous excuses from President Bush? He says that he was
justified in going after Iraq. He also says that it was better to
draw out potential fighters and fight them in Iraq than to have to
fight them on American soil.

If you didn’t know it before, I hope
you know it now, we already did that. We already drew them out by
going after Afghanistan. There was positively no justifiable thing to
do with Iraq beyond monitoring activities within the country and on
its borders. This would simply have been in order to monitor
proliferation of weapons or knowledge.

If simply removing Saddam was the goal we know for a fact that we
should have been exploring other alternatives towards that goal as we
can be sure there was.

All we have succeeded in doing is increasing
the difficulties ahead by going into Iraq, more than two fold. The
main reason for this is now not only did we give Islamists a new
place to fight and render their services. We now have another front
still draining our much needed efforts.

We knowingly did this with the
knowledge that we would get additional problems from inside the
country. We also knew that it most certainly could come from across
any one if not more of their borders.